Several knee surgeries ago, I used to run 5 miles a day. I weighed myself before and after the run and figured the weight loss was water. I did the calculations and I computed that I get 16.4 miles to the gallon: about the same mileage as an SUV.
Gasoline is measured in 1/1000 of a gallon. A thousandth of a gallon is about a teaspoon. That much gas is enough to move an SUV about 70 feet: enough to reach the next gas pump.
What I never could figger out was the train commercial that bragged “they could move 472 tons a hundred miles on one gallon of fuel”… (paraphrasing) I’m good at math, but like Foghorn Leghorn said; “It just don’t add up!!” and please, don’t enlighten me with mathematical tricksternometry, for I’d rather live in the dark and know what I know, rather than have to deal with the inrush of sunshine and fresh knowledge that would pain my dilated brain-pan.
Observer fo Irony about 9 years ago
Must have been a draft horse.
Francis Lapeyre Premium Member about 9 years ago
Good mileage, but bad emissions.
NoCents about 9 years ago
What the hay?
dflak about 9 years ago
Several knee surgeries ago, I used to run 5 miles a day. I weighed myself before and after the run and figured the weight loss was water. I did the calculations and I computed that I get 16.4 miles to the gallon: about the same mileage as an SUV.
Gasoline is measured in 1/1000 of a gallon. A thousandth of a gallon is about a teaspoon. That much gas is enough to move an SUV about 70 feet: enough to reach the next gas pump.
Who said math can’t be fun.
unca jim about 9 years ago
What I never could figger out was the train commercial that bragged “they could move 472 tons a hundred miles on one gallon of fuel”… (paraphrasing) I’m good at math, but like Foghorn Leghorn said; “It just don’t add up!!” and please, don’t enlighten me with mathematical tricksternometry, for I’d rather live in the dark and know what I know, rather than have to deal with the inrush of sunshine and fresh knowledge that would pain my dilated brain-pan.